Basics of TabJolt

Performance Tool for Tableau

24/11/2015

Dodge Data & Analytics

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Dipanwita Mukherjee
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dipanwita.mukherjee1@tcs.com
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 Table of Content

1. TabJolt Overview ....................................................................................................................................................... 4

1.1 Key Features of TabJolt ..................................................................................................................................... 4
2. Working Principle of TabJolt ......................................................................................................................................... 5
2.1 Prerequisites for TabJolt Installation ...................................................................................................................... 6

3. Limitation of TabJolt ..................................................................................................................................................... 6

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1. TabJolt Overview
TabJolt is a point-and-run load and performance testing tool specifically designed to work easily with Tableau
Server 9.0 or later. Unlike traditional load-testing tools, TabJolt can automatically drive load against Tableau Server
without script development or maintenance. Because TabJolt is aware of Tableaus presentation model, it can
automatically load visualizations and interpret possible interactions during test execution. This tool is available as-
is, for free, from GitHub.

1.1 Key Features of TabJolt

TabJolt is a specialized performance testing tool for Tableau servers.

TabJolt can automatically drive load against Tableau Server without script development or maintenance.
Predominantly, JMeter is used under the hood for the load generation. For those who are familiar with JMeter,
can open up the test plans etc in the Jmeter. So TabJolt is compatible with Jmeter.

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2. Working Principle of TabJolt
TabJolt can be installed on one or more load generator machines and can drive load to one or more nodes
in a Tableau cluster.

TabJolt uses JMeter under the hood and is capable of not only executing large Tableau workloads
on Tableau Server, but also gathering critical system and infrastructure metrics as well as application JMX
metrics.

TabJolt can automatically load and interact with Tableau visualizations published on Tableau Server. You
need to do is configure TabJolt and point it to the correct server instance and workload. TabJolt simulates
virtual users based on your configuration settings, and measures various metrics.

Logical and simplified view of the test environment

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2.1 Prerequisites for TabJolt Installation

To install TabJolt, a Windows machine with a minimum of two cores with at least 8GB of RAM is required as
load generator. As a best practice, this machine should be monitor for CPU and memory to ensure that
your test runs dont bottleneck the load injector. In addition, the latest versions of Java, Tableau Desktop
9.0, and Postgres are required.

For a realistic load test, you should NOT use the Tableau Server Postgres instance for recording and storing
your TabJolt test results. Its important to keep your Tableau Server, the system under testing, separate
from Postgres for TabJolt.

3. Limitation of TabJolt

TabJolt directly hits Tableau servers with load, no script recording or modification is required. So TabJolt is
only able to give the response time for the Tableau server (i.e: the Tableau query), it will not provide us the
end to end (sending request from the browser and receiving the response in the client m/c) transaction
response time. From the end user perspective end to end response time matters the most.

Underlying technology for TabJolt is Jmeter, so there is no web interface to monitor the performance run
as on ALM.

For any further information below link can be visited:

http://www.tableau.com/about/blog/2015/4/introducing-tabjolt-point-and-run-load-testing-solution-
tableau- server-38604

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